An Unexplored Realm in the Heartland of the Southern Gulf ... - Famsi

The total station was used to collect X, Y, and Z coordinate points, which were
imported using Trimble Geomatic Office. Terramodel Software was used to process those
data to produce a variety of map types. Figure 4.6 illustrates two examples; on the right is
a point coverage map overlain on the contours, and on the left is a standard topographical
map with elevation interval lines. Once the contour data are processed, topographic
Digital Terrain Models can be developed using Terramodel 3D Visualizer software.
Figure 4.7 displays images captured from oblique perspectives in a three dimensional
interactive model of El Marquesillo. Data were also exported into an ArcView shapefile
format for use in the ArcGIS software platform to combine the site-level spatial data with
other regional survey data.
Figure 4.6. Maps generated from total station data. On the left is a standard
topographic contour-line map, and on the right is a point coverage map.
Coordinates withheld by author.
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